Daria Krivonos

I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research. Currently I am doing my doctoral research on young Russian-speakers' employment in Finland in a project Migrant Youth Employment-Politics of Recognition and Boundaries of Belonging with Lena Näre, Lotta Haikkola and Elina Paju.

My research analyses structural circumstances that enable or limit young Russian-speakers' labour trajectories and how yong migrants experience labour uncertainty in their everyday lives in Finland. My PhD analyses how young Russian-speakers in Finland make their ways towards work and manage their unemployment in the context of older histories around Finnish nationalism and Russians’ racialised position in Finland, which ties into newer processes of remaking of the welfare to workfare state, precarious labour markets and neo-liberal restructuring of class relations. My work has focused on questions of legal status, whiteness, gender and racialisation. My research is based on a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, through which I attended the sites where young migrants search for work. 

In 2016 I also joined Making Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide  project, which explores questions of sexuality, gender and migration across the Finnish-Russian border.